How to lock a template

Locking a part of template restricts the ability to make changes to that specific part on any page that is based on the template.

Benefits:

Helps keep uniform look in your site

Prevent users from making changes where they are not allowed

Avoid inadvertant changes that change template inheritance. If a user changes the left navigation on an individual page, the left navigation will no longer update when the template does, even if you change it back to look exactly the same.

Template Inheritance Security settings can be applied to individual elements or to a table in the template.

How to:

Log in to Commonspot and navigate to the template that you want to lock. (See editing your template for instructions)

Change to author mode

Click the "Edit Properties" Button above the item, or the "Table Properties" Button that you want to lock and select "Element Inheritance Security"

On the menu that comes up you will have three sets of options for setting template security. The first is to restrict certain rights for all users, the second and third to grant access to certain groups or users. We recommend making changes only to the first section. There are four conditions that can be restricted to the template, selecting all four will prevent any changes on individual pages.

Author/Edit ability (removes pencil icon, or the cell editing icon if applied to a table)